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10 Words That Will Win You Any Game of Scrabble | Mental Floss 10 Words That Will Win You Any Game of Scrabble Hasbro Like us on Facebook Whether you consider winning at Scrabble a case of extreme luck or supreme spelling ability, here are 10 words that—if conditions are right—will help you trump any opponent. 1. Oxyphenbutazone Definition: An anti-inflammatory medication used to treat arthritis and bursitis. Conditions: The theoretically highest-possible scoring word under American Scrabble play—as calculated by Dan Stock of Ohio—has never actually been played … and probably never will (unless you’re really, really lucky). That’s because it has to be played across three triple word score squares and build on eight already-played (and perfectly positioned) tiles. Points: 1,778 2. Quizzify Definition: To quiz or question. Conditions: Not only will you need to draw the game’s only Q and Z tiles (there’s only one of each), but a blank tile, too (in place of the second Z).

Play this verb as your first word across two triple word squares with the Z on a double letter score square and you’ve got the game’s most valuable eight-letter bingo. Points: 419 3. Oxazepam Definition: An anti-anxiety drug. Conditions: All that stress will melt away if you can build on one existing letter , play across two triple word score squares, place one of the most valuable tiles (i.e. X or Z) on a double letter score square and net a 50-point bingo. Points: 392 4. Quetzals Definition: The national bird of Guatemala as well as one of its monetary units. Conditions: Placement is everything to score this whopper of a word: Building on one letter, use all seven letters on your rack for a 50-point bingo, with Q and S on triple word score square and Z on a double letter score space. Points: 374 5. Quixotry Definition: A romantic or quixotic idea or action.

Conditions: In 2007, Michael Cresta used an already-played R and all seven of his tiles across two triple word score squares to earn the most points ever on a single turn, which aided in a second record for the full-time carpenter: the highest-ever individual game score (830 points). Points: 365 6. Gherkins Definition: A small pickle, made from an immature cucumber. Conditions: In 1985, Robert Kahn paid tribute to the pickle at the National Scrabble Championship in Boston—using an E and R already on the board—to set a record for a non-bingo word score. Points: 180 7. Quartzy Definition: Resembling quartz. Conditions: “Quartzy” held the record for highest-ever single turn score until “Quixotry” nearly doubled its total in 2007. Play it across a triple word score square with Z as a double letter score, with a 50-point bingo for using all seven letters on your rack. Points: 164 8. Muzjiks Definition: A Russian peasant.

Conditions: On its own (with no bonuses or extra points), “muzjiks” is worth an impressive 29 points. But exhaust all of your tiles on your first turn to spell it, and you’ll earn more than four times that—which is what player Jesse Inman did at the National Scrabble Championship in Orlando in 2008 to earn the record for highest opening score. Points: 126 9. Syzygy Definition: An alignment of three celestial bodies. Conditions: Forget trying to pronounce it (though, for the record, it’s “SIZ-i-jee”). Instead, just remember how to spell it—and that it’s worth 21 points au naturel . You’ll need one blank tile to make up for the lack of Ys (there are only two in the game). For a higher total, land the Z on a double letter score square and the final Y on a triple word score square. Points: 93 10. Za Definition: Slang term for pizza. Conditions: Big words are great and all, but two-letter words can also score big . And be especially annoying to your opponent.

Build on two As—one directly below, the other directly to the right of a triple letter square—to spell this two-letter delectable across and down. Points: 62 Is Eden A Scrabble Word? - You Go Scrabble! You Go Scrabble! About Is Eden A Scrabble Word? Scrabble the word Eden. A scrabble help & word finder with 32,502 scrabble words including Eden, with 7 letters or less. The letters check out, and has been verified in our scrabble dictionary. If Eden is listed on You Go Scrabble, Eden can be used in a scrabble game. With 4 letters, there's 24 combinations eden can be arranged. Definition a beautiful garden where Adam and Eve were placed at the Creation; when they disobeyed and ate the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil they were driven from their paradise (the fall of man) Eden Has The Following 4 Letters There is one d . 4% chance of pulling the d. There are 2 e's . 12% chance of pulling the e. There is one n . 6% chance of pulling the n.

5 Points Worth 5 points , leaves you with 3 scrabble tiles. From the letters deen, you have 3 words you can make, and 397 words with the letters "den ". Probability / Chance The probability of Eden in a game of scrabble is 0.000661% which is 1 out of every 1513 hands (not pulled in order of spelling). There are 24 ways the letters can be arranged in your tile holder. Scrabble Words Starting With More Words That Can Be Made. (3 Anagrams) You can rearrange the letters of eden to make the following 3 words: Ened 397 Words With The Letters DEN" Can you gain points with other words by using the tiles on the board, or another tile in your set? View a list of words that use the tiles den Donate +2 points Tweet What is the probability of pulling the, the letter, or set of letters in a game? Every word on You Go Scrabble! provides the probability and other math for your scrabble curiosity. All number data on this website, provided by You Go Numbers! . All words on this website, are provided by You Go Words! .

*New Game!* Scrabble words starting with A-Z or ending in A-Z . The most requested are X scrabble words and Q scrabble words . Find scrabble words worth 2-31 points . You can also find words that contain letters from a-z, filter only the a words , b words , c words , d words , e words , f words , g words , h words , i words , j words , k words , l words , m words , n words , o words , p words , q words , r words , s words , t words , u words , v words , w words , x words , y words , z words , or view all scrabble words This page was last updated on Dec 31, 2016 and has been viewed by 913 people. View the privacy policy and terms of use . Disclaimer: Scrabble information on this website is family friendly and English only words. Definitions including names in scrabble letters, are derived from user contributed queries. This is not an official scrabble dictionary. Words brought to you by James Cordeiro of You Go Media , ©2016.

Stefan Fatsis is the author of Word Freak and A Few Seconds of Panic and is a panelist on Hang Up and Listen . Follow him on Twitter. Any Scrabble player can tell you that the X is actually worth eight points. But as Butts was creating the game, in a fifth-floor walkup in Queens, he tinkered—with the layout of the board, with the total number of tiles, with their distribution, and with their respective point values. “It’s not hit or miss,” Butts said long afterward. “It’s carefully worked out.” Seventy-five years later, Butts’ carefully worked out point values are under attack. Late last month, a University of California–San Diego, cognitive science postdoc and casual player named Joshua Lewis conducted a computer analysis to recalibrate Scrabble’s letter values based on the game’s current lexicon. Lewis reposted his findings to Hacker News, and they were picked up by Digg and went viral. Around the same time, Sam Eifling, writing for Deadspin, asked a programmer friend to do the same . Both were inspired by the fact that while the language had changed dramatically from the time Butts performed his calculations, the game of Scrabble had not.

Advertisement It’s a fair observation. Since Scrabble was adopted in chess parlors in New York in the 1950s, competitive players have dissected its strategic quirks. One early realization was that short words have outsized value, so players scoured the preferred source (the now-defunct Funk & Wagnalls Standard College Dictionary) and compiled lists of two- and three-letter words. They also recognized that the most common letters showed up in a lot of words, so they recorded and memorized seven- and eight-letter words—ones that would earn the 50-point bonus for using all seven tiles at once—that contained A, E, I, N, R, S, and T, among other single-point letters. You didn’t need a computer to see that the Q, though worth the most points, was a pain in the rack but the Z not so much. Since the publication in 1978 of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, a compilation of several standard college dictionaries, the game’s word list has grown by tens of thousands of words.

From a playing vantage, the addition of QI (a Chinese life force) and ZA (short for pizza) in the last lexicon update, in 2006, were game-changers. Players feared the new words would cheapen Scrabble, boosting scoring and elevating the role of chance. It didn’t happen. The Q became less of a hindrance, a slightly fairer tile than before, and players adjusted strategy to account for the new gimmes. That need to adjust validates Lewis’ and Eifling’s suspicion that the values assigned to letters aren’t in perfect harmony with the frequency of their use in English or in its narrower subset, the Scrabble word list. The two approached the problem differently. Eifling and software developer Kyle Rimkus totaled the number of letters in Scrabble-eligible words (1.58 million), isolated the frequency of each letter, and then calculated how overvalued or undervalued each letter was compared to its existing point value. Lewis’ approach was more complicated.

He weighted letters not only by appearance in the Scrabble lexicon but also by the frequency with which they appear in words of different lengths (with emphasis on two-, three-, seven-, and eight-letter words) and by their ability to “transition” into and out of other letters. The findings don’t differ much. In both analyses, the values of about half the letters change by one or two points. One or the other found that B, C, F, H, K, M, P, X, Y, and Z are overvalued, which makes some intuitive sense. For instance, the X (eight points) and the Z (10) can be easy money, especially since they occur in a number of short words; bumping them down to six points apiece is a logical move. Similarly, the H was set by Butts at four points, but it now appears in nine two-letter words and combines beautifully with other letters, while the M appears in 12 two-letter words. Living-room players detest the C, but they haven’t studied seven- and eight-letter “bingos,” in which C’s abound.

The clunky U and V, by contrast, are undervalued—ratcheting them up to two points and five points respectively seems reasonable. Advertisement While the media pounced on the story (I joined in ), the Scrabble community has been largely unmoved. Why? Several reasons. One, the game’s owners, Hasbro in North America and Mattel overseas, aren’t changing anything. Two, such proposed rejiggerings aren’t new. Three, players understand that variances, in letter values and tile distribution (too many I’s, the Q without a U), are part of the game and strategize accordingly. Four, there are other, arguably more sophisticated ways to assess tiles values. Five, and most important, adjusting any core variables would create a completely different game requiring different strategies. “It's basically saying, Let’s change the game to make a new game,” Jason Katz-Brown, a software engineer who co-wrote Scrabble’s best computer player, Quackle , told me. Let’s examine the potential effects of the “new” values. In both Lewis’ and Deadspin’s calculations, 10 tiles decrease in value, four increase, and 12 don’t change.

More tiles fall in a band of two to five points, bringing the utility of each closer together. The consensus of my math-brained Scrabble colleagues is that this would be like a dose of lithium for the game, flattening scoring and eliminating swings that keep games interesting. Big but still-reasonable values for some tiles, especially the X and Z, are good because they improve the odds of comebacks, make tile positioning a compelling strategic consideration, and give players with lesser word knowledge a slightly better chance against those who are booked up. “Except for the Q, Josh [Lewis] basically squashes the volatility,” said Eric Chaikin, co-director of the Scrabble documentary Word Wars . “His values take the fun out.” Quackle co-writer John O’Laughlin, a software engineer at Google, said the existing inequities also confer advantages on better players, who understand the “equity value” of each tile—that is, its “worth” in points compared with the average tile. That gives them an edge in balancing scoring versus saving letters for future turns, and in knowing which letters play well with others.

“If we tried to equalize the letters, this part of the game wouldn't be eliminated, but it would definitely be muted,” O’Laughlin said. “Simply playing the highest score available every turn would be a much more fruitful strategy than it currently is.” In response to Lewis’ findings , John Chew, co-president of the North American Scrabble Players Association and a mathematics doctoral student at the University of Toronto, wrote that Scrabble has always had an “intentional” imbalance between the face value and the equity value of the letters. Whenever the game’s lexicon changes—a fifth edition of the Scrabble dictionary is due in 2014—players adapt. “The tile values were chosen to make an interesting game, not to accurately represent the statistical properties of a particular lexicon,” he wrote. Advertisement In fact, for Alfred Butts, the face value of the letters was secondary to their distribution.

That’s because Butts’ original research was for a word-formation game called Lexiko, which didn’t involve a board and didn’t assign points to individual letters.* In the early 1930s, on spreadsheets containing 26 rows, one for each letter, Butts tallied tens of thousands of letters from the pages of the New York Times, the New York Herald Tribune, and the Saturday Evening Post. Then he compared the frequency with which the letters occurred, both on their own and as part of words of particular lengths. From those tabulations, he determined how many of each letter should be included in his game. Criss-Cross Words, Alfred Butts' prototype for Scrabble Courtesy National Scrabble® Association. Butts manufactured and sold a few hundred sets of Lexiko from his Queens walkup, but Milton Bradley and Parker Brothers, among others, rejected it. In 1938, Butts decided to add a board. That’s when he assigned values to letters roughly corresponding with their frequency. Butts’ files, which I read while researching my book Word Freak , contain pages of spreadsheets and notes about letter frequency and tile distribution.

But there’s little about how he settled on the point values for his new game, which he named Criss-Cross Words. He did experiment, though. I found one iteration in which the Z was worth nine points; the K and V six; and the B, F, and W five. And there’s the plywood evidence of my six-point X. My conclusion: Butts coupled intuition with direct observation of the game in action—he tested it on his wife and their friends—to arrive at values that he felt balanced equity and volatility. (Not that he would have used those words.) So, for instance, while Butts might have suspected the X was logically worth six points, he understood that eight would make the game more exciting. Similarly, while Butts included a lexicographically reasonable seven S’s in Lexiko, he knew the letter was so valuable for pluralizing words that he should reduce the number in his board game, which he did, to four. (As with Lexiko, Butts made and sold Criss-Cross Words from his apartment with no success. In 1948, he sold its rights to a small businessman, James Brunot of Newtown, Conn., who renamed, redesigned, and manufactured the game.

Five years later, Scrabble became a national sensation. Butts received royalties until 1976. He died in 1993.) Scrabble inventor Alfred Butts Courtesy National Scrabble® Association. Advertisement Lewis and Eifling performed a statistical exercise that can help lay players reconsider particular letters based on the overall lexicon. “Get rid of your J and your Q as quickly as possible, because they’re just damn hard to play and will clog your rack,” Eifling concluded, correctly. A deeper dive would involve valuing each letter based on how it is actually used in Scrabble, because words of certain lengths or lexicographic properties might be more or less useful when playing the game. Lewis’ program didn’t consider, for instance, longer combinations of letters, or the importance of four- and five-letter words. “The game isn’t about drawing words at random from the dictionary,” Chew wrote. “It’s about actually finding places to play them on the board.” Chew’s and O’Laughlin’s approach to reconsidering the face values of the tiles involves adjusting their equity values. Equity value in Scrabble is similar to advanced baseball stats that compare players to an “average” replacement.

Scrabble theorists have been calculating this stat—let’s call it VORT, or Value Over Replacement Tile—since the 1980s. “The Barry Bonds of the Scrabble set,” O’Laughlin said, is the blank, with a VORT of about 25 points. That means a blank plus six random tiles will likely net 25 more points than seven random tiles. At the other end, the Q has the lowest VORT, about -7 points. To perform a revaluation using VORT, Chew and O’Laughlin would shift the equity value of positive tiles downward and negative tiles upward, have Quackle play thousands of games against itself using those new values, and keep adjusting the values and making Quackle play until the equity of each tile approaches zero. At that point, the tiles could be given corresponding face values, which would be based on how Scrabble is played by the world’s best player. Chew and O’Laughlin said they aren’t interested in conducting that analysis because it would be time-consuming and wouldn’t add to the understanding of the game.

But they have begun trading emails with Lewis, who told me he’s eager to work with the Scrabble quants to learn more and find ways to study the statistical properties of the tiles further. Which shows how, in contrast to the way this story is being framed in the media—Scrabble Controversy!—it’s really just a bunch of curious living-room players and super-smart computer guys swapping ideas about game theory and analysis. Lewis isn’t demanding that the game’s manufacturers change anything, just performing an interesting statistical and intellectual exercise. Still, he does believe, as he wrote in a new post on Wednesday , that tweaking Scrabble’s tile values would “keep the intentional luck in the game and remove the unintentional luck that has crept in over time as the use of English has changed.” He’s perplexed as to why competitive Scrabble players wouldn’t favor mediating some of the luck, because that might make the results of games and tournaments more accurate. I can answer that. Because Scrabble players understand that the game’s inequities are on the margins, and that figuring them out is a crucial part of learning to play well.

And we respect, and are in fact awed by, how Alfred Butts, without the benefit of computer programs and language databases, came damn close to nailing both letter distribution and letter valuation, and in the process created a game that exquisitely, often maddeningly, balances skill and luck. Making the X worth six points won’t improve on that. Correction, Jan. 19, 2013: This article originally misspelled the name of Alfred Butts’ first word game, Lexiko. Is Latin A Scrabble Word? - You Go Scrabble! You Go Scrabble! About Is Latin A Scrabble Word? Scrabble the word Latin. A scrabble help & word finder with 32,502 scrabble words including Latin, with 7 letters or less. The letters check out, and has been verified in our scrabble dictionary. If Latin is listed on You Go Scrabble, Latin can be used in a scrabble game. With 5 letters, there's 120 combinations latin can be arranged. Definition any dialect of the language of ancient Rome Latin Has The Following 5 Letters There is one a . 9% chance of pulling the a. There is one i .

9% chance of pulling the i. There is one l . 4% chance of pulling the l. There is one n . 6% chance of pulling the n. There is one t . 6% chance of pulling the t. 5 Points Worth 5 points , leaves you with 2 scrabble tiles. From the letters ailnt, you have 0 words you can make, and 14 words with the letters "ailnt ". Probability / Chance The probability of Latin in a game of scrabble is 0.000349% which is 1 out of every 2869 hands (not pulled in order of spelling). There are 120 ways the letters can be arranged in your tile holder. Scrabble Words Starting With n 14 Words With The Letters AILNT" Can you gain points with other words by using the tiles on the board, or another tile in your set? View a list of words that use the tiles ailnt Initial +2 points Tweet What is the probability of pulling the, the letter, or set of letters in a game? Every word on You Go Scrabble! provides the probability and other math for your scrabble curiosity.

All number data on this website, provided by You Go Numbers! . All words on this website, are provided by You Go Words! . *New Game!* Scrabble words starting with A-Z or ending in A-Z . The most requested are X scrabble words and Q scrabble words . Find scrabble words worth 2-31 points . You can also find words that contain letters from a-z, filter only the a words , b words , c words , d words , e words , f words , g words , h words , i words , j words , k words , l words , m words , n words , o words , p words , q words , r words , s words , t words , u words , v words , w words , x words , y words , z words , or view all scrabble words This page was last updated on Nov 15, 2016 and has been viewed by 431 people. View the privacy policy and terms of use . Disclaimer: Scrabble information on this website is family friendly and English only words. Definitions including names in scrabble letters, are derived from user contributed queries. This is not an official scrabble dictionary.

Words brought to you by James Cordeiro of You Go Media , ©2016. Scrabble: Should letter values change? - BBC News BBC News Scrabble: Should letter values change? By Laura Gray BBC News 15 January 2013 Read more about sharing. Close share panel The values of the letters in Scrabble were assigned according to the front page of a US newspaper in the 1930s. Is it time the scoring system was updated to reflect today's usage? All Scrabble players know that Q and Z are the highest scoring tiles. You can get 10 points for each, in the English language version of the game. But according to one American researcher, Z really only deserves six points. And it's not just Z that's under fire. After 75 years of Scrabble, some argue that the current tile values are out of date as certain letters have become more common than they used to be. "The dictionary of legal words in Scrabble has changed," says Joshua Lewis, researcher and creator of a software program which allocates new, up-to-date values to Scrabble tiles.

"Among the notable additions are all of these short words which make it easier to play Z, Q and X, so even though Q and Z are the highest value letters in Scrabble, they are now much easier to play." Joshua Lewis's program is called Valett and it recalculates the letter valuations by looking at three things. What is Scrabble? Players make words on a board and earn points according to the value of the letters they use They have seven letters each Every word has to join a word already on the board So to get rid of all your letters, you would usually need to think of an eight-letter word The winner is the player with the most points when all the spare letters have been used and one player has no letters left How to win at Scrabble Firstly, there is the frequency of the letters in the English language. Secondly, the frequency by word length - how many times a letter appears in two, three, seven, and eight-letter words. And finally, he looked at how easy it is to play the letter with other letters. For example, Q is a difficult letter to play so would warrant a higher score than S, which can be played with many more.

According to Lewis's system, X (worth eight points in the current game) is worth only five points and Z (worth 10 points now) is worth six points. Other letter values change too, but less radically. For example, U (one point currently) is worth two in the new version, G (two points) becomes three and M (three points) becomes two. Not all letters change under these proposals but those that do tend to have fallen in value. In explaining why his overall point distribution is lower, Lewis blames Q which, as he puts it, is an "outlier", much harder to play than other letters. It is a game of luck and changing the tile values wouldn't achieve anything Philip Nelkon, Mattel, Scrabble manufacturer "You get this justified separation between Q at 10 and Z and J at six, and in general the non-Q letters are a bit more compressed in value." He looked at increasing the value of Q to 12, but decided against putting too much power in a single tile. Lewis is not the first to propose an updated version of Scrabble, says John Chew, co-president of the North American Scrabble Players Association.

He says he hears from people once or twice a year saying that the tile values are incorrect. In fact this has been happening ever since the game was invented in 1938 by the American architect Alfred Butts, who calculated a value for each tile by measuring how frequently each letter appeared on the front page of the New York Times. Letter scores that would change Source: Joshua Lewis "Alfred Butts had a selection bias in favour of printed newspaper English which many people have suggested ought to be rectified," says Chew. But is there a market for a revised version of Scrabble? If the tile values changed there would be "catastrophic outrage", says Chew. "Some people would just continue playing with the old tile distributions because people who've played the game often enough tend to remember that the Q is worth 10 points, the Z is worth 10 points and so on." What's more, he says, seasoned Scrabble players know there is an important difference between the value written on a Scrabble tile and that tile's real value when played in a game, a notion he calls "equity value".

So a blank tile or an S have an equity value that far outstrips their face value because they can easily earn a player so many points. So could Scrabble tiles really be changed to adapt to our evolving vocabulary? No, according to Mattel, the company which manufactures Scrabble in Europe. "Mattel has no plans to change Scrabble tiles. It is not a game where fairness is paramount, it is a game of luck and changing the tile values wouldn't achieve anything," says Philip Nelkon, Scrabble's UK representative. More or Less: Behind the stats Listen to More or Less on BBC Radio 4 and the World Service, or download the free podcast More stories from More or Less Even Joshua Lewis, inventor of the new system believes the traditional valuations can make the game more exciting. "You're really lucky if you pick an X because it's over-valued and unlucky if you pick a V. So if they were to re-do the values of the tiles that would reduce the level of luck.

"That might be desirable in tournaments but it might not be as good in casual play where you want the less skilled players to have a shot periodically at beating the more highly skilled players." So those players who rely on good luck when playing Scrabble can breathe a sigh of relief. You can follow the Magazine on Twitter and on Facebook Scrabble Tile Distribution and Point Values By Erik Arneson Updated September 29, 2016. One of the first things that beginner Scrabble players should learn is the game's tile distribution. It's vital to know that, for example, only one J, K, Q, X and Z are in the bag -- and that they provide the best opportunities for high scores.

Scrabble Tiles Listed by Point Values 0 points: blank/wild (2) 1 point: E (12), A (9), I (9), O (8), N (6), R (6), T (6), L (4), S (4), U (4) 2 points: D (4), G (3) 3 points: B (2), C (2), M (2), P (2) 4 points: F (2), H (2), V (2), W (2), Y (2) 5 points: K (1) 8 points: J (1), X (1) 10 points: Q (1), Z (1) Scrabble Tiles Listed Alphabetically Blank/Wild: 2 tiles, 0 points A: 9 tiles, 1 point B: 2 tiles, 3 points C: 2 tiles, 3 points D: 4 tiles, 2 points E: 12 tiles, 1 point F: 2 tiles, 4 points G: 3 tiles, 2 points H: 2 tiles, 4 points I: 9 tiles, 1 point J: 1 tile

, 8 points K: 1 tile, 5 points L: 4 tiles, 1 point M: 2 tiles, 3 points N: 6 tiles, 1 point O: 8 tiles, 1 point P: 2 tiles, 3 points Q: 1 tile, 10 points R: 6 tiles, 1 point S: 4 tiles, 1 point T: 6 tiles, 1 point U: 4 tiles, 1 point V: 2 tiles, 4 points W: 2 tiles, 4 points X: 1 tile, 8 points Y: 2 tiles, 4 points Z: 1 tile, 10 points Online - Scrabble :: Hints & Tips :: Letter Values Letter Values Some letter combinations work exceptionally well, for instance, the word: Quiz What makes this word so unique and high scoring, despite it being only 4 letters, is the fact that it uses the 2 highest scoring letters: Q and Z.

Because Q and Z are worth 10 each, and U and I combined are 2, you immediately have 22 points. A key to doing well, is using as many Q's and Z's as possible, in the one word. The two highest scoring words in Online-Scrabble, not suprisingly, contain the letters Q and Z.. one more than one occasion. Quizzically - One Q, Two Z's. Straight away you have thirty. Because of various other high scoring letters such as C and Y, the word comes to a total of 43 points. If you are lucky, and get a Double Word score, or a Triple Word Score, this 43 letter word could turn into 86 points, or even 129 points. Quizzicality - Like quizzically, many high scoring letters are the key. Because of the extra letter, you are looking at an extra point. And if you are lucky enough to get a Double Word Score or Triple Word Score, you would get 88 points and 132 points respectively. Use the chart below to find the best combinations using the key letters: Q and Z, and when you can: X and J.

Scrabble Letter Values FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions about the Game | Scrabble Rules FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions about the Game of Scrabble Posted on by Staff Writer April 25, 2016 These are frequently asked questions about the game of Scrabble. Although we could write full articles about these questions the answers are really short and don’t need that much detail. How Does the Scrabble Game End? Unless a different condition is agreed upon by players, a Scrabble game ends when the last tile has been played or when all players in the game pass on the same round. How Much Does the Scrabble Game Cost? The cost of a game of Scrabble varies over time due to inflation, changes in technologies used to produce games and game materials, and the collectible value of older games. For example, the original games were made by hand and only 2400 of those hand-made games were manufactured in the first year (1948-9) of production. These games, depending on their condition, could be very valuable. There are premium-quality versions of the Scrabble game, such as this $99 Scrabble Deluxe Wooden Edition with Rotating Game Board available on Amazon.

How Many Tiles Does a Scrabble Game Have? There are 100 tiles in a standard, “classic” game of Scrabble. There are occasional calls for changing the number and distribution of the tiles in the game. How Were the Letters Chosen for the Game of Scrabble? Alfred Mosher Butts, the man who invented the game, analyzed daily editions of the New York Times‘ front page, computing how frequently letters were used. There have been calls to update the distribution and value of letters due to changes in the English language since Butts completed his research in 1948. How Many Squares Does a Scrabble Board Have? There are 225 squares on the standard Scrabble board. It consists of 15 rows of 15 columns of squares. It is not possible to cover every square on the board with tiles in a standard, classic game of Scrabble. How Many Letters Does a Scrabble Game Have? This answer really depends on the language for which a variant of Scrabble is designed. In the English game there is at least 1 tile for every letter of the alphabet, plus two blank tiles. So you might say there are 27 letters in the English language version of the game.

When A Letter Is Used in A Word Both Ways Does It Have Value Each Way? These words are called palindromes and they are spelled the same way if you read them left to right or right to left. A few examples of palindromes include kayak, madam, and radar. How are such words scored in Scrabble? Sorry to disappoint you, but all English Scrabble words are scored from left to right or top to bottom. They are to be read only one way. Now, if a letter is used in a word spelled from top to bottom and then used again in a word spelled from left to right, the letter is indeed counted twice. However, only the first word gets the benefit of any special tile on which the letter is placed. Do Blank Tiles Have Any Point Values in Scrabble? No. There are no point values for the blank tiles in the game of Scrabble. The benefit of having blank tiles is that they can substitute for any letter that you need but other do not have. Using a blank tile may help you gain a Triple Word Score, in which case all the points for the other letters in the word are totaled and tripled. How Many Blank Tiles are There In a Standard Game of Scrabble?

There are 2 blank tiles in a standard game of Scrabble. Which Letters are Worth 10 Points in Scrabble? The “Q” and the “Z” are both worth 10 points in the game of Scrabble. Which Letters are Worth 8 Points in Scrabble? The “J” and the “X” are both worth 8 points in the game of Scrabble. Which Letter Is Worth 5 Points in Scrabble? The “K” is the only letter worth five points in the game of Scrabble. Kate Spanos § Scrabble Score Calculator Kate Spanos § Scrabble Score Calculator Word: *note: if you are scoring for Words With Friends, be sure to select “Words With Friends” as your language in the drop-down menu above nth letter How many doubles would you like to apply? How many triples would you like to apply? Bingo: 50 point bonus for words using all 7 tiles Read Scrabble scoring instructions Each word formed in the play is scored this way: Any tile played from the player’s rack onto a previously vacant square that is a “double-letter” or “triple-letter” premium square has its point value doubled or tripled as indicated.

Add the normal point value of all other letters (excluding blanks) in the word (whether newly played or existing). For each newly played tile placed on a “double-word” premium square, the total is doubled (or redoubled). For each newly placed tile placed on a “triple-word” premium square, the total is tripled (or re-tripled). Premium squares affect the score of each word made in the same play by constituent tiles played upon those squares. Premium squares, once played upon, are not counted again in subsequent plays. If a player uses all seven of the tiles in the rack in a single play, a bonus of 50 points is added to the score of that play (this is called a “bingo” in Canada and the United States, and a “bonus” elsewhere). These bonus points are not affected by premium squares. Added features history May 2015 Update: I have added more vowels with diacritical marks (accents, umlauts, circumflexes, etc.) to the Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and French alphabets. With diacritical marks, these letters have the same value as their unaccented counterparts and should be calculated as such.

April 2015 Update: I have added Portuguese to the language options. August 2013 Update: Thanks to a user’s suggestion, I have added Estonian to the language options. December 2011 Update: Thanks to the suggestion of Roman (see comments below), I have added a blank letter option in case you want to set a letter’s value to 0. November 2011 Update: I have added another WordsWithFriends word validator, this time using the ENABLE word list that WWF uses. Just click the “Validate [word]” button to check to see if WWF will accept your word! August 2011 Update: I have added a WordsWithFriends word validator to the calculator. When you click the “Validate [word]” button, it will also check the WordsWithFriends database and tell you if it is acceptable. Another new feature is the “cache”: Now when you enter a word, a button appears that says “add to cache.” Click this to add it to a cache of saved words; you can add as many words as you like to this cache, and it will calculate the running total.

Click the ‘x’ to remove a word from the cache, and again, your total will be updated. This might be useful if you are trying to calculate the total of multiple words that intersect or border other words on the Scrabble board. 4/27/2010 Update: I have added a dictionary check to the calculator so that you can validate your word. Simply click the “Validate [word]” button just below the “Reset” button and your word will be checked against Dictionary.com and Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary. At this time, only English words are supported, so your language setting must be either English or Words With Friends. 4/2/2010 Update: I have added support for the popular iPhone app Words with Friends after discovering that the letter values in this game vary slightly from those in standard Scrabble. Just select Words with Friends as your “language” and your letter values should update appropriately. In addition, the bonus for using all 7 tiles in Words with Friends is only 35 points, as opposed to 50, and you will notice this change in the bonus checkbox.

12/11/2008 Update: Thanks to your brilliant suggestions, I have added some new features to the calculator: multiple double and triple letter scores within a word multiple double or triple word scores links to look up words on Dictionary.com and Wordnik.com support for multiple languages, including English, Dutch, Spanish, French, Italian and German Keep the great ideas coming, and enjoy!

Question: Which is the only letter in Scrabble worth 5 points?
Answer: K